A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education; pp. 13-347 / James Gall

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. On the preliminary objects necessary for the establishment and improvement of education -- Part II. On the great design of nature's teaching, and the methods she employs in carrying it on -- Part III. On the methods by which the educational processes of nature may be successfully imitated -- Part IV. On the selection of proper truths and subject to be taught in schools and families.

The Author of the following pages is a plain man, who has endeavored to write a plain book, for the purpose of being popularly useful. The philosophical form which his enquiries have assumed, is the result rather of accidental circumstances than of free choice. The strong desire which he felt in his earlier years to benefit the Young, induced him to push forward in the paths which appeared to him most likely to lead to his object; and it was not till he had advanced far into the fields of philosophy, that he first began dimly to perceive the importance of the ground which he had unwittingly occupied.